The new year is coming soon, and every family has begun to prepare for the new year. The Spring Festival is the biggest traditional festival in China. Many traditional customs of the Spring Festival have been handed down since ancient times. Now, with the development of the times, while celebrating the new year in accordance with traditional customs, we are constantly adding more novel ways and programs. So how did ancient people celebrate the new year? The editor of this article will check with you how people in the Song Dynasty celebrate the new year and what customs and programs people in the Song Dynasty have for the new year.
01 burning firecrackers
In the Song Dynasty, paper wrapped gunpowder was widely used to make firecrackers. The custom of setting off firecrackers gradually prevailed on New Year's Eve and Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve in the Song Dynasty, the sound of firecrackers continued all night.
"Tokyo dream records" records: "it's night, no firecrackers, mountain call, smell the sound outside." The sound of setting off firecrackers in the deep wall of the palace High Court spread outside the palace. People competed to set off firecrackers in the streets outside the palace. It is reported that there were more than 100 kinds of firecrackers in the Song Dynasty, including single sound, double sound and continuous sound. Among them, the two kick firecrackers that fly into the sky contain the basic principles of modern rocket technology, which is amazing.
02 eat dumplings
In the Song Dynasty, jiaozi was called 'jiaozi', and 'jiaozi' was the etymology of the word jiaozi. Dumplings are auspicious objects that repose people's good wishes. According to ancient books, eating dumplings was popular as early as the 5th century A.D. the literature said that dumplings' shaped like the Yan Moon, and the world can eat '. At that time, dumplings were eaten together with soup, called 'wonton', which is still eaten today.
03 drinking Tusu wine
Song people always drink Tusu wine during the new year. This custom was very popular in the Song Dynasty. Tusu is the name of a kind of grass. The wine brewed by this kind of grass is called Tusu wine. It is said that Tu Su wine was created by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the late Han Dynasty. It was made by dipping rhubarb, Atractylodes macrocephala, cinnamon twigs, pepper and other traditional Chinese medicine into the wine. Su Zhe, a scholar of the Song Dynasty, wrote in his book "except for the sun": "at the end of every year, I drink and kill Su, and I don't realize that more than 70 years have come." Drinking, always from the elderly drink, the new year drink Tusu wine, on the contrary, it is from the youngest drink.
04 ShouSui and New Year greetings
On New Year's Eve, people keep watch. Xi Zhenqi of the Song Dynasty wrote in the Shou Sui poem: 'invite the Shou Sui ah Xian's family, and the wax torch spreads the red and green yarn. When I was thirty-six years old, I cherished my youth from now on. "
On the first day of the first lunar month, after the third watch and the fifth watch, firecrackers rang through the sky, and activities of worshipping heaven and earth, offering sacrifices to ancestors and paying New Year's greetings to each other began. It is even more inevitable for colleagues, relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings to each other. Interestingly, in the Song Dynasty, some dignitaries couldn't go there in person because they had too many relatives and friends and didn't have enough time. They asked their servants to go to other people with their business cards. "During the song and Yuan Dynasties, New Year celebrations often led servants to go on their behalf with famous thorns."
Seeing here, do you think the people of the Song Dynasty are not far away from us? Although we are in different time and space with the people of the Song Dynasty, we inherit the Chinese context. The Chinese people's own spiritual temperament can be demonstrated through the Spring Festival and continued through the Spring Festival.
The Spring Festival custom in Song Dynasty embodies the characteristics of secularization and popularization, which is formed by many reasons. First, the imperial examination system was widely used in the Song Dynasty, opening the channel for civilians to become officials. Secondly, the prosperity of markets in the Song Dynasty also provided the soil for the development of secular culture.
The prosperous and popular culture of the Song Dynasty is far in line with the concept of inheriting, developing and revitalizing the humanities advocated by Zhengxin zhengju.
East and West, from ancient to modern times, no matter how profound wisdom is and how broad and profound culture is, they ultimately want to serve people's survival and development. Without this essential problem, wisdom and culture are easy to become tall and false, ethereal and lose their practicability. Only by breaking all ideological barriers, making wisdom and culture effectively serve people's production and life, and connecting with the earth, can their value be fully reflected in continuous transcendence and creation.